TEHRAN, Jan 23 - US government shutdown has such prolonged that federal employees who most never needed the help of food pantry have been making beeline for their basics.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - According to a report of AFP, among the crowd of federal help-seekers are customs, tax and emergency management officials, all having gone unemployed as of December 22.
Still, other federal employees such as prison guards or transportation workers are forced to keep working without pay, however they show their protests through launch breaks.
"It is very stressful," said one 39-year-old single mother, who works as a prison guard at Brooklyn's federal detention facility.
She came to the food pantry on her lunch break seeking enough to prepare a few meals.
Her daughter is nearing the end of high school, and as students apply for universities, she laments being unable to pay her child's application fees.
She managed to postpone the monthly bill for her cell phone, which she needs for work, albeit with a late penalty.
But she won't be able to make it after mid-February.
"After that I won't be able to go to work," she said, saying she won't have money to fill her car's gas tank.
With the US shut down the government , the situation has exacerbated the situation of livining in US where soaring rents are pushing more and more families into poverty.
Many in New York, a Democratic stronghold, hold US president Donald Trump culpable for the crisis.
US government shutdown enters second month with no end in sight to the historic crisis.
Since December 22, a quarter of the US government has been closed because of an impasse between opposition Democratic Party lawmakers and the Republican administration of President Donald Trump over funding for a wall at the border with Mexico to block illegal immigration.
Source: AFP
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